Abstract: As an important part of knowledge management (KM), the KM performance evaluation tries to find out the key factors restraining the enhancement of the enterprises' performance. This paper investigates the feasibility of the balanced scorecard (BSC) method in enterprise knowledge management and then proposes a simplified and applicable performance evaluation model based on the BSC appro...

Article history: Received 30 June 2011 Received in revised form 12 October 2011 Accepted 19 October 2011 Available online 5 December 2011 This article explores why it is often difficult for organizations to capture, store, and share employees' individually held expertise. Drawing on studies of the social construction of expertise and theories of transactive memory systems and self-presentation ...

Knowledge is increasingly recognized to provide a foundation for creating core competences and competitive advantages for organizations, making effective knowledge management (KM) crucial and significant. Despite evolving perspectives and rigorous endeavors to embrace KM intentions in business agendas, organizations cannot always realize expected benefits and improve their performances. This pa...

aims: endotracheal suctioning is a vital process to keep the airways open. the method of performing endotracheal suctioning has a great effect on its complications and effectiveness. this study was carried out with the aim of assessing gap between the knowledge and performance of nurses' working in intensive care units (icu) in tracheal suctioning.   methods: in this cross sectional study,...

background: evaluating the effectiveness of reengineering moheb (interventions and sociopsychological supports in disasters) project helps the managers of the welfare organization have feedback on the status of community empowerment against disasters. in this regard, this study aimed to determine the effectiveness of reengineering moheb project to improve the knowledge, attitude, and performanc...

introduction: video-assisted clinical instruction (vacid) has been found to be a beneficial teaching tool for various fields in dentistry. the aim of this interventional study was to compare the efficacy of live conventional demonstration (cd), video teaching, and vacid (video with explanation) methods in teaching of root canal treatment to undergraduate dental students. methods and materials: ...

background: health system research (hsr) is system planning, coordination, monitoring and management of research resources and activities to achieve health and justice. as the main members of the health system, general practitioners (gps) play an important role in access to health care goals. the aim of the present study was to assess knowledge, attitude, and performance of gps in rafsanjan, ir...

The main goal of this work is to describe a new model for a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system using a phonetic-phonological approach. This work proposes a statistical phonetic structure, applied at the phoneticphonological level, to improve the speech recognition performance in systems with phonetic-phonological modeling. It is showed that the general likelihood scores are i...

This research investigates individual differences in the context of knowledge management system (KMS) usage, knowledge sourcing and learning outcome. Individual differences are measured for mastery, performance and avoidance goal orientations. Individuals with high mastery goal orientations prefer to master and develop new skills and knowledge. Those with high performance goal orientations pref...